Lead Software Engineer, ITC

The Cloud & Core Engineering team builds, operates, and provides full lifecycle management of Nike's fully managed, multi-cloud platform and software-defined network, the foundation that enables self-service cloud, data, and AI environments for Nike Global Technology. Cloud and Core Engineering team is part of Foundational Services, AI & Security Technology domain. You will be reporting to Software Engineering Manager. You will spend much of your time with Software Engineers in Cloud Engineering and adjacent teams. You will also partner closely with other Leads, Principal Engineers, Engineering Directors, and Product Managers in both foundational and business facing technology domains.

We are looking for a lead software engineer to lead the layer responsible for multi-cloud access and entitlement management, account lifecycle, resource attribution, cloud governance and policy guardrails, and cloud economics including unit-cost optimization. This is a high- ownership, high-visibility, hands on engineering leadership role, not a coordination role. The ideal candidate will be a strong analytical problem solver, bringing deep technical expertise in Cloud Engineering to solve complex engineering problems to enable Nike’s pursuit to deliver State of the art Enterprise Cloud infrastructure to run Nike’s business and support our athletes.

Minimum 9+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on cloud infrastructure engineering in a multi cloud ecosystem including architecture, deployment and management of enterprise cloud solutions.

3+ years of leadership experience including leading senior engineers and engineers in a GCC or distributed engineering model.

Experience co-owning a product or platform with a global counterpart, driving alignment on priorities, architectural decisions, and operating models without escalation dependency.

Ability to mentor and guide a team of cloud engineers.

Strong grasp of software engineering fundamentals including system design, testing, maintainable code, API design, and scalability.